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BRACHTPODIUM SYLVATICUM. 



BEAUVAIS. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. LINDLEY. DEAKIN. 

 Kocn. BABINGTON. 



PLATE LXVI. A. 



Fentuca sylcatwa, SMITH. SINCLAIR. HUDSON. MARTYN. 



" " KNAPP. DICKSON. LIGHTFOOT. 



" " WITHERING. RELHAN. SIBTHORP. 



" graciUs, MCENCII. SCHRADER. 



Brumus sylvaticus, POLLICH. SMITH. HULL. HOOKER. 



" " SINCLAIR. POURRET. HOST. 



" gracilis, WEIGEL. ROTH. WILLDENOW. 



" " EHRHART. 



Triticum sylvaticum, MCENCH. PARNELL. KUNTII. 



" " MACREIGHT. 



The Slender False Brome- Grass. 



Brachypodium Short foot. Sylvaticum A wood. 



BRACHYPODIUM. Beauvais. The False Brome-Grass is named from the 

 Greek, and signifies short-footed. This genus is intermediate between 

 Bromus and Triticum. There are two British examples. 



OF no agricultural use, growing in damp shady situations; 

 common in England, Scotland, and Ireland. 



Native of France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Russia. 



Stem upright, circular, and smooth, bearing four or five 

 broad sharp-pointed polished leaves, with hirsute striated 

 sheaths, upper leaf extending beyond its sheath, and having 

 a blunt hirsute ligule at its apex. Joints hairy, and four in 

 number. Inflorescence racemed. Spikelets lengthy and cylin- 



